THE HITFILM WISHLIST: What Features Do You Want?

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If you click on an item in the MEDIA tab and hit a character key on the keyboard, the selection should jump to the next item that begins with that character. It should accept multiple characters in close succession, so "su" would go to the next item beginning with "su" rather than the next item beginning with "s" and then the first item beginning with "u".

I'd also like to be able to set more than one keyboard shortcut to do the same thing (so, e.g. either V or F1 would switch to select tool).

It takes up a lot of space for the information it's displaying. Make the info display as an overlay, Alt Text type of thing if you hover over a clip for a while, and/or press SHIFT or something non-destructive.

"The In and Out markers to 'magnetically' snap to the ends of clips when dragged with the mouse."

I've requested this and I'll +1 to keep it fresh is the Devs minds.

"The ability to playback at slower speeds, such as 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 (or slower) "

+1. Maybe even a frame accurate playback mode. Playback speed is whatever speed Hitfilm can make without skipping frames to keep audio sync.

I've seen the frame accurate mode somewhere. I think Fusion.

"RAM Preview in the Editor Timeline."

+1. DUH

Performance issues with transitions in LongGOP single media really need this. Of course there is the usual thing where we can always create very complex stuff that might need a ram preview.

"Selective rendering in the Editor timeline. A bit like Proxy creation, but at Export quality settings. "

I've used that in Vegas a few times. I used it for timeline sections that did not play real time.

This leads me to another idea. One that kinda fits the concept of Hitfilm timeline workflow. If HF had sequences, then one could simply proxy the sequence just like we can proxy a composite timeline. With this, then the mechanism of proxy creation, invalidation, file storage and tracking is all exactly the same as is done with composite timelines. The sequence is just a timeline entity with a UID like everything else. So the work here is the sequence feature. The proxy of the sequence comes along for the ride.

Slick, yes, no? Another way to +1 that sequences are useful.

Then of course the idea that HF proxies should have other options beyond the huge, I/O bandwidth heavy, lossless version we are offered right now. Optimized Media as Resolve likes to call it. This is actually a low effort item as of 2017 since we are offered a native intermediates codec option.

With all the Express users with fairly basic PCs, and that high overhead AVC is the norm for media, they NEED a decent proxy option to work productively in Hitfilm.

"Which also leads to: Grouping."

Another repeat +1

"And, Vegas Pro 15 lives up to it's promise of faster export speeds."

Vegas is moving to support hardware encoders for AVC/HEVC and decoders for AVC/HEVC. Same for Resolve.

This is one thing about Mainconcept that if I were in charge of a company like FxHome would really tick me off. They are just sitting on the arse and collecting money. They don't offer new technologies to their customers. Technology I would need to service my customers. They complain to me, why don't you support my hardware technology. Really this comes down to hardware decode and encode for AVC and HEVC. Quicksync and NVDEC/NVENC.

libavcodec is out there (yes, yes, numerous issues I know (long term thinking)). Better performance as well. Resolve has bit the bullet and gone that way. No more Quicktime garbage. Native everything, including DNxHD/HR and Prores. Of course license issues and now you have to deal with everyone independently for license/royalty for items you choose to offer.

Vegas seems to be doing the baby step. Keep Mainconcept, use their muxer/demuxer, and access the AVC/HEVC hardware decode/encode with their own source code. Seriously consider doing the baby step thing for hardware AVC/HEVC.

Hitfilm has a mound of users with basic machines and trying to use high overhead AVC media. Stutter playback. A transcode most often does wonders. Well, with hardware AVC decode this can disappear and no transcode necessary. This could shutup almost everyone about almost everything with regards to performance editing in Hitfilm.

A Clean Project Media Option,where it deletes everything that's not used in the Project from the Media Bin.

Also an Archive Project Media Option, where it collects all the files used in a Project from their various sources (external drives, texture and audio folders etc.) and puts them all in one Folder, with the Project file, and adjusts all the links to the files to be Local to that Folder.

Now that Hitfilm has preset dropdowns in most effects, let us save our own presets that show in the dropdown list.

Yes, Hitfilm has the presets in the effect pane. That's a huge list and can be tedious to navigate. Also, most everything there has nothing to do with what we are looking for. It's good for presets containing more than one effect.

In current Hitfilm, the best place for a preset for a single effect is in the effect properties. The presets are right there, right in front of you, right in the effect you just dropped onto a clip/layer that you want to work on. It does not get more convenient.

In Vegas everything can have saved presets. Even third party OpenFX effects. Even transitions. Similar capability would be nice in Hitfilm.

I don't know if this is already on the Wishlist, but if it is, then I would like to +1 it...

Hotkeys (or at least ability to create your own hotkeys) for single frame tracking forward and backward arrows. When you are working a track that has a lot of problems and you need to hover your mouse over the tracking area to adjust it one frame at a time, it would be nice to be able to use a hotkey to track forward or backward one frame instead of moving the mouse over to click the arrow key between adjustments.

HF must -- MUST have filters that at least match the base Photoshop filters as of CS6 -- This fellow wanted to add an inner glow to an object. Instead of a single click effect, he was presented with a 10 point workaround.

This may have been mentioned before. But after several iterations of HF where we have danced around with transcoding to ProRes, DNXHD, etc. we now seem to have settled on Cineform as the defacto codec.

Why not have the ability to right click on a file (or files) in the media bin and be presented with an option to transcode directly to Cineform from within the software?

I assume that since HF supports Cineform "natively" now that licensing would not be an issue to provide that option.

Transcoding from within HF would solve a lot of questions about "Why won't HF play my file?".

I'm on a Mac, and don't have that codec by default. Sure, I could install it, but ProRes works just fine for my needs. Then again, I'm not locked in if there's a better option. Is there some benefit to using Cineform over ProRes?

Apple is a codec Nazi... the apple policy regarding who gets a license to encode ProRes is asinine.

ProRes in Windows is tied to Apple's antiquated, 32-bit, single-threaded quicktime implementation for Windows. Most NLE vendors have been forced to implement their own ProRes decoding because Apple's is pitifully bad, intentionally.

On the other hand, Cineform is a SMPTE standard mezzanine codec, and is now open source. It's a winner all around.

@Stargazer54 One can already right-click media in the Media Panel and send directly to the Export Queue. Make Cineform the default export template (which one can), and for all intents and purposes Hitfilm can already batch transcode.

@jsbarrett we've settled on Cineform as the best option for WINDOWS. ProRes is still the best option for you Mac guys.

@Stargazer54 a one-click would be faster and more convenient. But, I THINK you can highlight multiple clips in the media bin and send in one shot. I'm in Chile, my comp in California. You can test this for me. ;-)